Re: [Chicken-users] Curious: why the name "Chicken Scheme"?

[Felix]

From: Kon Lovett <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Curious: why the name "Chicken Scheme"?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:05:59 -0700

> 
> On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:43 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I looked around the wiki but did not see an answer to this. Just
>> curious: why is it named "Chicken Scheme"? :)
> 
> As I remember:
> 
> Felix had (has?) a character figurine of the bad penguin from "The
> Wrong Trousers", a "Wallace & Gromit" adventure. He saw this when
> searching a name for his new Scheme compiler. From a bird to Chicken
> is his internal logic.

But it's a penguin disguised as a chicken! With a rubber glove!


cheers,
felix